Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi finished refining the fifth-tier Xuan Ming Banner and received Venerable Hei Miao’s warning that the Imperial Dragon Sect faced imminent destruction. Hei Miao’s meeting with Fang Xi was part of a secret alliance with the Ink Sect to strike while Venerable Nine Dragons attempted to advance to Void Returning.

• Fang Xi forged the Ten Thousand Year Yellow Springs Wood into a new Xuan Ming Banner, advancing the formation treasure to the fifth tier.
• Fang Xi summoned Xiyi Rogue and recognized that Venerable Hei Miao was possessing him through a Divided Spirit technique.
• Venerable Hei Miao told Fang Xi that Venerable Nine Dragons had likely reached Spirit Transmutation Completion and sought to advance to Void Returning, and urged him to seize the chance to act against the Imperial Dragon Sect.
• After leaving Fang Xi, Venerable Hei Miao met Mo Yin Jiao in a hidden space in the Profound Nether Abyss and revealed that his warning was meant to provoke Imperial Dragon Sect scrutiny while concealing their real plan.
• Venerable Hei Miao and Mo Yin Jiao planned to attack when Venerable Nine Dragons underwent the Major Heavenly Tribulation, with Hei Miao promising to share the location of a secret realm in return for the Ink Sect’s support.

Fang Xi concealed his breakthrough to the middle stage of Spirit Transformation while Fairy Luan Bing warned him that the Imperial Dragon Sect might investigate the subordinate sects over Venerable Hei Miao’s schemes. Months later, he rejected the Xuan You Chamber of Commerce’s proposal to establish a hidden shop in Kong Sang Marketplace.

• Fairy Luan Bing visited the Wang Family, and Wang Lingdao directed her to Piyun Cave to meet Fang Xi.
• Fang Xi revealed that he had smoothly advanced to the middle stage of Spirit Transformation, though he concealed his true cultivation from others.
• Fang Xi and Fairy Luan Bing discussed Venerable Hei Miao’s attempts to draw them into his scheme and the Imperial Dragon Sect’s possible investigation.
• Several months later, Fang Xi read a letter from Di Yi proposing that the Xuan You Chamber of Commerce establish a hidden shop in Kong Sang Marketplace.
• Fang Xi decided to reject the proposal because the Wang Family had already established ties with the Xuan You Chamber of Commerce.

Fang Xi watched Zuo Xiaoxuan begin her Nascent Soul tribulation as a far greater Void Returning tribulation descended over the Imperial Dragon Sect. The Mo Sect and Venerable Hei Miao attacked during the crisis, but the Sect Master revealed a powerful purple dragon beneath an Azure Giant Umbrella.

• Fang Xi saw lightning gather over Zuo Xiaoxuan’s dwelling and recognized that she was attempting to condense a Nascent Soul.
• Golden lightning spread over the Imperial Dragon Sect, signaling a Void Returning Heavenly Tribulation that its disciples believed the Sect Master was undergoing.
• Venerable Hei Miao and Mo Yin Jiao led the Black Water Sect and the Mo Sect’s Mechanism City in an assault on the Imperial Dragon Sect.
• Mo Yin Jiao activated the Mechanism City’s Myriad Puppet Great Array and sent its Azure Dragon puppet through the weakened Ten Thousand Dragon Worshiping Great Array.
• Mo Yin Jiao and Venerable Hei Miao reached the lake and saw a purple dragon holding the Azure Giant Umbrella beneath the dissipating golden lightning.

Fang Xi learned that the Imperial Dragon Sect had issued a rushed bounty for the Mo Family and Venerable Hei Miao after the sect’s Void Returning Flood Dragon exposed the Mo Family’s retreat and attacked them. The Mo Family’s resistance faltered after Mo Yin Ling was killed, and Mo Yin Jiao took a Heavenly Demon Transformation Pill and charged the dragon with a Silver Wheel.

• Fang Xi read an emergency message from the Imperial Dragon Sect seeking the Mo Family and Venerable Hei Miao, dead or alive.
• The Imperial Dragon Sect’s Void Returning Flood Dragon revealed that it had reached Mid Void Returning after its Minor Heavenly Tribulation and attacked the Mo Family’s Mechanism City.
• Venerable Hei Miao tried to reclaim the Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella while Mo Yin Jiao sent two fifth-tier puppets to cover the Mo Family’s retreat.
• The flood dragon suppressed the umbrella, cleared the puppets’ red-and-blue mist, and killed Mo Yin Ling with a single strike.
• Mo Yin Jiao swallowed a Heavenly Demon Transformation Pill, raised his power at the cost of his lifespan, and attacked the flood dragon with a Silver Wheel.

The Imperial Dragon Sect and the Void Returning Flood Dragon destroyed Mechanism City despite Mo Yin Jiao’s efforts, but an unknown Void Returning Cultivator’s intervention allowed the city to escape. Fang Xi then discovered the injured Venerable Hei Miao hiding in the Profound Nether Sea and confronted him, intending to make his predicted “Calamity of Blood Light” come true.

• The Void Returning Flood Dragon destroyed Mo Yin Jiao’s Silver Wheel and battered Mechanism City as the Ten Thousand Dragon Worshiping Great Array and the city’s escape plan failed.
• An unknown Void Returning Cultivator trapped the flood dragon briefly with a web of green will-o’-the-wisps, giving Mechanism City time to escape; the purple-robed dragon ordered wanted notices for the Ink Sect remnants.
• Fang Xi learned of the Imperial Dragon Sect’s defeat but focused on his pill-making, then received word that his puppet had spotted Venerable Hei Miao hiding in a reef.
• Fang Xi and his External Incarnation went to the reef, and Fang Xi concealed himself in the Black Water while his incarnation broke through the illusion array.
• Venerable Hei Miao confronted Fang Xi, who invoked a divination of a Calamity of Blood Light and prepared to attack.

Fang Xi defeated Venerable Hei Miao, captured his Nascent Soul, and used Soul Search to uncover fragments about the Mo Sect’s failed plan against the Imperial Dragon Sect. The memories revealed that Venerable Nine Dragons had been intended to undergo a Major Heavenly Tribulation while the Mo Sect exploited a Void Returning Treasure.

• Fang Xi used the Six Paths Demonic Flame and Five Prisons Peacock Demonic Body to overwhelm the poisoned Venerable Hei Miao and seize his fifth-grade shield.
• The Divine Infant Sword wounded Venerable Hei Miao, but his Nascent Soul escaped until Fang Xi trapped it in the Nine Nether Underworld River formation and captured it in the Gray White Pagoda.
• Fang Xi collected Venerable Hei Miao’s shield and storage pouch, then returned to the Wang family, where Little Mysterious Tortoise eagerly consumed a True Blood Pill and advanced to the Fourth-grade Middle-grade realm.
• Fang Xi sealed his cave residence, transformed himself into a middle-stage demonic cultivator, and used Heavenly Demon Secret Knowledge to search Venerable Hei Miao’s Nascent Soul.
• Fang Xi learned from the memories that the Mo Sect had planned for Venerable Nine Dragons to undergo tribulation while a fragment of the Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella made the Imperial Dragon Sect’s Void Returning Treasure backfire.

Fang Xi learned from Venerable Hei Miao’s soul that the Ink Sect sought a dangerous secret realm in the Profound Nether Abyss, then attempted to subdue Hei Miao’s resistant Black Water Shield. His External Incarnation contacted Mo Yin Jiao to propose cooperation in exchange for the Ink Sect’s mechanical puppet inheritance.

• Fang Xi’s soul search triggered the Immortal Spirit Document’s backlash, revealing that Venerable Hei Miao had found a secret realm entrance and made a pact with the Ink Sect to keep its location secret.
• Fang Xi decided to postpone exploring the dangerous secret realm and planned to use the True Blood Pills and Spirit Ointment for Spirit Transmutation.
• Fang Xi tried to make the Black Water Shield submit, but its Artifact Spirit attacked him, so he began burning it with earthfire to erase its spirituality.
• Fang Xi’s External Incarnation shattered a Heart-Connecting Pearl at Ghost Gate Reef to summon the Ink Sect and seek its mechanical puppet techniques.
• Mo Yin Jiao met Fang Xi, who offered cooperation in locating the secret realm in exchange for the Ink Sect’s mechanical arts, and Mo Yin Jiao accepted the proposal.

Mo Yin Jiao revealed that he had used a fifth-order puppet to conceal his failing health while pursuing an immortal estate hidden in the Profound Nether Abyss. Later, he met Fang Xi to begin their exchange under an Immortal Spirit Document, whose oath bound their External Nascent Souls but could not affect Fang Xi’s main body.

• Mo Yin Jiao returned to his vessel and revealed to his deputy that his puppet had impersonated him while his real cultivation and lifespan were failing.
• Mo Yin Jiao explained that the Ink Sect was searching the Profound Nether Abyss for an immortal estate and planned to give Fang Xi Mechanism City blueprints while withholding its fifth-order Puppet Technique.
• Mo Yin Jiao predicted that the Imperial Dragon Sect would face a great calamity within two hundred years, then prepared his deputy to succeed him as Sect Master.
• Fang Xi continued fishing in the Profound Nether Abyss while the Imperial Dragon Sect pursued the Ink Sect Remnants.
• Mo Yin Jiao and Mo Yin Qiu met Fang Xi and signed an Immortal Spirit Document with him to protect the exchange and secret-realm information.
• Fang Xi’s External Nascent Soul sensed that breaking the oath would bring severe backlash, but the document could not affect his main body.

Fang Xi accepted the Ink Sect’s mechanism Puppet Technique inheritance in exchange for helping explore a secret realm, then brought its Mechanism City blueprints to Jiuzhou Realm for study. Ghost Axe Venerable began planning a national project and revealed that research into the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan and Dao Fruit Creation had raised suspicions about the nature of Immortal Mansion Rare Treasures.

• Fang Xi signed the Immortal Spirit Document with Mo Yin Jiao and learned that Venerable Hei Miao had found a hidden secret-realm entrance somewhere in the southeastern Misty Sea region.
• Mo Yin Qiu gave Fang Xi part of the Ink Sect’s mechanism Puppet Technique inheritance, including Mechanism City blueprints that Fang Xi found especially useful.
• Fang Xi traveled to Jiuzhou Realm, visited Fangxian University, and sent the Mechanism City blueprints to Ghost Axe Venerable for study.
• Ghost Axe Venerable said he could master the technology within ten years and build a Mechanism City within a century if Fang Xi authorized a national project.
• Ghost Axe Venerable explained that researchers believed Immortal Mansion Rare Treasures came from the True Immortal Realm and described how studying the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan and Dao Fruit Creation had upended their theories.

After a century of seclusion, Fang Xi assessed his cultivation and used his External Incarnation’s memories to review new developments involving the Xuan You Chamber of Commerce, Kong Sang Marketplace, the Mo Family, and the Jiuzhou Realm. The chapter ended with Fang Yuan meeting Li Rulíng, whose grim expression hinted at a serious secret.

• Fang Xi emerged from a hundred years of seclusion, finding his Heavenly Demon Slaughter Immortal Strategy more than halfway complete and the Golden Patterns of his Eternal Evergreen Body ninety percent complete.
• Fang Xi read Fairy Luan Bing’s letter and suspected the Xuan You Chamber of Commerce was behind the earlier attack, while resolving to avoid involvement with the Star Sect and quietly tighten his control over the Wang Family.
• Fang Xi assimilated the External Incarnation’s memories and learned that Kong Sang Marketplace faced unrest, Mo Yin Qiu had become head of the Mo Family, the Profound Nether Abyss entrance remained undiscovered, and construction of the new Mechanism City had stalled over energy problems.
• Fang Xi sensed a message received by a Wood Puppet in Kong Sang Marketplace, then several days later met Li Rulíng in a private room at the Heavenly Immortal Restaurant.
• Li Rulíng sealed the room, thanked Fang Xi for his past guidance, and revealed his gloomy expression as they prepared to discuss a sensitive matter.

Li Rulíng told Fang Xi that he had discovered a secret realm in the Profound Nether Abyss and agreed to give him its location in exchange for a Nascent Soul Pill and other resources. Fang Xi then revealed the entrance to Mo Yin Qiu and negotiated terms for sharing information and any discoveries, leaving Mo Yin Qiu to explore the dangerous realm with Mo Sect.

• Li Rulíng recounted his past and explained that he had found a secret realm in the Profound Nether Abyss after being blown off course by the Unpredictable Wind.
• Fang Xi recognized the location as the secret realm he had sought and warned Li Rulíng that his master, Qing Hezi, already knew about it.
• Li Rulíng chose to hand over the entrance map in exchange for a Nascent Soul Pill and cultivation pills, and Fang Xi marked him with Spiritual Energy and provided a cave dwelling.
• Fang Xi met Mo Yin Qiu in the Profound Nether Abyss and told him he had finally found the secret realm's entrance.
• Mo Yin Qiu gave Fang Xi the fifth-grade Puppet Technique inheritance, and Fang Xi proposed an agreement requiring Mo Yin Qiu to disclose the realm's gains and allow him to buy or select items he needed.
• Fang Xi and Mo Yin Qiu negotiated the terms until they reached an arrangement acceptable to both.

Fang Xi learned that Mo Yin Qiu’s faction had entered a secret realm that suppressed cultivators to the Core Formation level, and he weighed its formation secrets against the risks of investigating it himself. Meanwhile, Zuo Xiaoxuan trapped Meng Zhu Zi in a formation and attacked him, while Dragon Capturer watched from above and prepared to leave.

• Fang Xi received Mo Yin Qiu’s report that his faction had entered the secret realm but was stalled by a Five Elements Restriction after their cultivation was suppressed.
• Fang Xi recorded the route through the Nine Pure Divine Thunder Array and considered preparing to sever his ties if the secret realm’s secrets became exposed.
• Zuo Xiaoxuan received a message as she left Sang Qing Peak, and killing intent appeared in her eyes.
• Meng Zhu Zi discovered a white demonic bird following him, destroyed it with his bone bow, and was surrounded by Xianyunzi and Core Formation cultivators.
• Xianyunzi used the Eight Gates Green Wave Array to trap Meng Zhu Zi until Zuo Xiaoxuan arrived and declared that she would kill him.
• Zuo Xiaoxuan hurled a Yin Lightning into the formation, and Dragon Capturer watched the resulting explosion from the sky.

Dragon Capturer was captured by the Star Sect’s Jiang and Purple Wind Spirit Lord as the Star Sect prepared to act against the Dragon Imperial Sect and its hidden ties to the Demon Race. The chapter ended with Jiang revealing that the Ascended Cultivator who had returned from Demon territory was Fang Xian Dao Master.

• Jiang and Purple Wind Spirit Lord ambushed Dragon Capturer, destroyed his Crimson Blood Flood Dragon, and captured him.
• Jiang explained that the Star Sect planned to target the Dragon Imperial Sect, investigate its Demon Race intelligence network, and rely on the Xuan You Chamber of Commerce to coordinate the operation.
• Purple Wind Spirit Lord asked about the Star Sect’s Saint Body disciple, and Jiang praised his rapid progress and promise.
• Jiang described exceptional talents from other factions and told Purple Wind Spirit Lord about an Ascended Cultivator who had escaped Demon territory and returned to the human race.
• Jiang revealed that the Ascended Cultivator was called Fang Xian Dao Master.

Fang Xi investigated the aftermath of a Void Returning battle, punished Zuo Xiaoxuan for killing Meng Zhu Zi, and secretly met Mo Yin Qiu to trade information about a secret realm. The chapter ended with Fang Xi identifying one of the Mo Sect’s recovered objects as a possible immortal jade.

• Fang Xi learned that Zuo Xiaoxuan had killed Meng Zhu Zi and sentenced her to lose her positions and endure ninety-nine Thunder Devouring punishments.
• Fang Xi’s Wood Puppet recovered a fifth-grade Crimson Blood Flood Dragon scale and found traces of dragon blood, leading him to suspect an unknown Void Returning Cultivator had killed the Imperial Dragon Sect’s Dragon Capturer.
• Fang Xi kept a low profile while the Imperial Dragon Sect showed no public reaction, then secretly traveled to meet Mo Yin Qiu after receiving a letter from the Mo Sect.
• A hidden observer used a Hidden Dragon Pearl to follow Fang Xi toward the Profound Nether Abyss.
• Mo Yin Qiu told Fang Xi that the Mo Sect had entered the secret realm, where puppets and spirit beasts lost control and cultivation was weakened, and showed him three recovered objects.
• Fang Xi examined a white jade-like object and asked whether it was an immortal jade.

Fang Xi traded with Mo Yin Qiu and chose a piece of immortal jade before discovering that a Fifth-grade Black Flood Dragon had followed him. When the Dragon Envoy demanded human Nascent Souls and attacked him, Fang Xi fought back and swept it into the Nine Nether Underworld River.

• Fang Xi accepted the immortal jade from Mo Yin Qiu, leaving the Heaven Orchid Flower and broken formation inheritance behind.
• After Mo Yin Qiu departed, Fang Xi spotted a concealed figure on a surveillance screen and fired the Star Annihilation Cannon at it.
• The wounded spy revealed himself as a Fifth-grade Black Flood Dragon and demanded three human Nascent Souls from Fang Xi as compensation.
• Fang Xi refused the demand and tried to leave, but the Black Flood Dragon attacked him from behind.
• Fang Xi burned the Flood Dragon with six kinds of demonic flame, then used the Xuan Ming Banner to sweep it into the Nine Nether Underworld River.

Fang Xi killed the Fifth-grade Black Flood Dragon inside the Nine Nether Profound Sand Underworld River Great Array and escaped to Piyun Cave while the Imperial Dragon Sect issued a wanted notice for Qing Hezi. After revealing that his Qing Hezi incarnation was safe, Fang Xi used immortal jade to activate the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror, which began sending information into his Sea of Consciousness.

• Fang Xi trapped the Black Flood Dragon in the array, with help from the Five Prisons Peacock, and struck it with a Flash of Insight Secret Talisman after it used its Life-Origin Talisman to recover from self-destruction.
• Fang Xi burned the wounded Black Flood Dragon with Six Paths Demonic Flame, captured its escaping inner core and soul, and collected its treasures before fleeing to the Mortal Realm.
• At Piyun Cave, Wang Lingdao and Wang Lingying told Fang Xi that the Imperial Dragon Sect had declared Qing Hezi wanted for killing Dragon Capturer and a Fifth-grade Flood Dragon, and they asked to take over Kong Sang Marketplace.
• Fang Xi sent the two Wang family cultivators to claim the marketplace, then revealed that Qing Hezi was his External Incarnation, assimilated with him, and dismissed the incarnation.
• Fang Xi placed immortal jade beside the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror, causing the mirror to react and information to appear in his Sea of Consciousness.

Fang Xi unlocked a new teleportation function in the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror and withdrew to cultivate, while the Mo Sect struggled to provision its hidden settlement. When a Black Tide erupted in the Profound Nether Abyss, Mo Yin Qiu led the sect out to escape, only to see a Giant Kun rising with the waves.

• Fang Xi discovered that absorbing Immortal Qi from Immortal Jade had unlocked the ability to set a permanent teleportation coordinate for each piece of Immortal Jade.
• Fang Xi decided to abandon the Mo Sect arrangement, fed the remains of the Fifth-grade Flood Dragon to the Yao Mo Tree, and entered seclusion to advance his cultivation.
• Twenty years later, a Mo Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator returned with fewer supplies than requested, and Mo Yin Qiu worried that their repeated purchases could expose the sect's hiding place.
• Xuan Ming Heavy Water broke through the secret realm entrance's barriers, so Mo Yin Qiu gathered the Mo Sect disciples and led them out rather than risk entering the dangerous secret realm.
• The Mo Sect emerged into the Profound Nether Abyss during a Black Tide, and Mo Yin Qiu recognized a Giant Kun in the waves and ordered everyone to scatter and flee.

Li Rulíng survived the Nascent Soul tribulation as the Black Tide overwhelmed Kong Sang Marketplace, while Fang Xi learned of several upheavals and fled the Earth Immortal Realm with Little Mysterious Tortoise. Back in the Mortal Realm, he advanced to Spirit Transmutation Middle Stage Peak, prepared to reopen the Gate of Myriad Worlds, and summoned allies to address the Black Taisui disaster, leaving the Bai Family Old Ancestor waiting angrily as a tremendous presence appeared.

• Li Rulíng Condensed Nascent Soul, learned that the Wang Family had taken control of Kong Sang Marketplace, and fled as the Black Tide and a Giant Kun attacked it.
• Wang Lingying told Fang Xi that Kong Sang Marketplace had been submerged, Wang Lingdao was likely dead, a secret realm had been exposed, and a Void Returning Cultivator had appeared, so Fang Xi ordered the Wang Family to scatter and escaped to the Mortal Realm.
• Fang Xi reunited with the fifth-rank Little Qing and Zhong Hongyu, learned about events in the Mortal Realm, and sent Little Qing to ask the Bai Family Old Ancestor to help resolve the Black Taisui disaster.
• Fang Xi reached Spirit Transmutation Middle Stage Peak and told Ghost Axe Venerable that he would reopen the Gate of Myriad Worlds after Jiuzhou Mechanism City was completed.
• At the Vast Sea Secret Realm, the Bai Family Old Ancestor waited with Yun Xi Fairy and Shui Lingxin for three months before angrily denouncing the Dragon Fish Island Master, just as a vast shadow appeared overhead.

Fang Xi led a host of Spirit Transmutation cultivators in refining the Vast Sea Realm and Black Taisui, then uncovered Yin Elder’s secrets while destroying him in the Southern Barrens. After the Yao Mo Tree helped his Eternal Evergreen Body reach major accomplishment, Fang Xi began preparing to break through to late-stage Spirit Transmutation.

• Fang Xi coerced Bai Family Old Ancestor into joining his forces and commanded the Heaven Refining Great Array to refine the Vast Sea Realm and Black Taisui.
• The sea turtle array spirit sacrificed itself while sealing Black Taisui, which Fang Xi’s array completely refined and absorbed into the Mountain Sea Pearl.
• Fang Xi led his cultivators to Emerald Island, where they unleashed the Heaven Refining Great Array against Yin Elder and searched his memories.
• Fang Xi learned that Yin Elder had been an Azure Emperor Mountain Spirit Transmutation Ancestor and obtained fragments of the Two Forms Void Breaking Pill formula and a secret about the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm.
• The Yao Mo Tree absorbed Yin Elder’s core and helped Fang Xi complete the Eternal Evergreen Body, after which he began attempting to reach late-stage Spirit Transmutation.

Fang Xi advanced to the Spirit Transmutation Late Stage, led Jiuzhou Mechanism City into the Central Region, and followed the Green Leaves to a hidden entrance to the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm. The cultivators discovered that its life-extending aura was actually the dangerous Myriad Wood Mother Qi.

• Demon Venerable Slayer defeated Bai Family Old Ancestor's Spiritual Treasure by summoning a colossal Candle Dragon, forcing Bai Family Old Ancestor to concede.
• Fang Xi broke through to the Spirit Transmutation Late Stage and concealed the Chains of Law suppressing him.
• Fang Xi summoned the cultivators to Jiuzhou Mechanism City and led them through the Great Dream Marsh toward the Central Region.
• Fang Xi piloted the city through the Central Region and used the Green Leaves to reveal a hidden passage beneath a luxuriant Giant Tree phantom.
• Fang Xi ordered his subordinates to stay inside the Mechanism City after the green aura seemed to extend lifespans, and he identified it as Myriad Wood Mother Qi when an inhaling cultivator began turning into a wooden man.